Xuánlǒng's Local Specialties

The rear garden of the royal palace.

A Body Integration Realm cultivator and two Tribulation Stage cultivators drank together. The Body Integration Realm cultivator was the Fourth Prince of the Gu Family, Gu Zongyan. There was no need to elaborate on Mighty Chu's Big Car—Gu Zongyan was a dragon among men, standing head and shoulders above his peers in both height and cultivation throughout Wu Zhou.

In Mighty Chu...

This generation had produced the monstrous genius Gu Zongchen. His Buddha light had eclipsed all the other princes, making Gu Zongyan seem ordinary and utterly lacking in distinction.

If Gu Zongchen had not set his sights elsewhere instead of the throne, no one could have competed with him. They would not even have been able to summon the courage to try.

The two Tribulation Stage cultivators were named Xiang Chengtian and Ge Nie. They came from Mighty Chu's immortal cultivation sect, the True Essence Pavilion, and were respectively Gu Zongyan's master and Martial Uncle. They had come to assist Gu Zongyan and win a bright future for the True Essence Pavilion.

Mighty Chu had its own national circumstances. Using the throne as bait, it bound the princes to the cultivation forces within the empire, gathering all of Mighty Chu's cultivation resources to nourish the Gu Family, making each generation stronger than the last.

As long as this national policy existed, Mighty Chu would never pick a general from among the short just because he was the tallest, ultimately choosing an emperor who drew birds like chickens.

The three discussed the current situation. Though Gu Zongyan was somewhat aggressive, he was not a fool who stubbornly followed his own path. He obeyed the two sect elders and chose to remain still, letting the other forces probe Xuánlǒng.

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